She Won’t Be The Alpha In A Redemption Novel - Chapter 3

“Riiip…”

Along with the sound of fabric tearing, Shen Banyan forcibly dragged her precarious reason back by sheer will.

The room lights were off. Only the neon lights outside the floor-to-ceiling windows gave the room a faint, mysterious glow.

A smile played at the corner of Su Xiqiao’s lips, her black curls scattered across the white sheets. Her allure came effortlessly, as if it had grown straight out from the seams of her bones.

With just one glance, even the most stone-hearted person would soften by three parts. If she offered someone a cup of poisoned wine with that expression, there would be no shortage of people willing to drink it down.

The slip dress had been torn into a mess and now hung loosely on Su Xiqiao’s body. One strap had been completely ruined, exposing a large expanse of snow-white skin.

“Sorry. I may have gone insane.”

Shen Banyan apologized with her mouth, but a faint trace of human warmth had appeared in those cool, indifferent eyes of hers.

She stood up from the bed, took off her suit jacket, and handed it to Su Xiqiao.

The three syllables of Shen Banyan’s name rolled over the tip of Su Xiqiao’s tongue. Those three words were practically like a piece of soft candy.

So it turned out that not every Alpha was like her fiancée, using heat as a universal excuse.

There really were Alphas in this world like Shen Banyan, people who could refuse to be controlled by pheromones.

Interesting.

For the first time, she found an Alpha interesting.

Only…

The feeling of suddenly hitting the brakes really was…

Not very pleasant.

Su Xiqiao took the suit jacket and changed out of the dress she was wearing.

“Let’s make a deal.”

There was a softness to Su Xiqiao’s voice, like the continuous rain of Jiangnan, soaking a person’s heart until it softened with it.

Shen Banyan felt a bit of a headache coming on. What sort of deal could a person on the verge of death possibly make with Su Xiqiao?

Discussing the inheritance of her estate?

Those tangled interests were not entirely something she alone could decide…

Shen Banyan had just been about to refuse when a pair of soft hands somehow wrapped around her waist like vines.

Su Xiqiao used very little force, but it was still impossible for Shen Banyan to ignore that pressure.

Her heartbeat was completely disobedient. Shen Banyan only felt as though her heart was about to smash straight through her ribs.

To avoid dying in Su Xiqiao’s hands before they had even finished discussing the deal, Shen Banyan decided to take a few steps back and leave this embrace.

But before she could retreat, Su Xiqiao had already obtained what she wanted.

A brown leather belt.

Su Xiqiao first put on Shen Banyan’s suit jacket, then lightly fastened the belt around herself, cinching out her waist.

Shen Banyan’s jacket was a little too big for her, which made the V-neck look especially deep. Her snow-white skin was covered in red marks, some deep and some shallow.

Mm.

The traces of Shen Banyan’s recklessness just now.

Fortunately, because the suit jacket was a size too large, its length just happened to cover Su Xiqiao’s hips.

But while the jacket could cover the red marks, it could not cover the finger marks on her thighs.

Shen Banyan only glanced at those finger marks once before looking away as if she had been burned.

Before today, Shen Banyan had never thought her willpower was fragile.

Now, she was starting to doubt herself a little.

“I’m about to die. I don’t have any bargaining chips to make a deal with you.” As Shen Banyan spoke, she only felt her heart growing unsettled.

They had clearly already completed an initial mark, so why was her gland still faintly heating up?

She wanted to kiss Su Xiqiao again.

Her experience just now had taught Shen Banyan that a kiss could ease the burning for a while.

But after the burning was eased, even Shen Banyan herself did not know what else she would do.

She no longer trusted her own self-control…

“Please leave.” Shen Banyan issued the order to leave with a cold face.

But Su Xiqiao did not move. Instead, she simply sat down by the bed and lifted her eyes, beginning to complain about Shen Banyan.

“How can someone be as unromantic as you?”

Even if Su Xiqiao had a favorable impression of Shen Banyan, she would never allow herself to fall into a disadvantageous position.

After learning about the so-called redemption novel plot, Su Xiqiao could no longer allow herself to become a weakling in front of others, some toy to be handled at will.

She had to be the absolute one in control.

“Why is Miss Shen in such a hurry to chase me away? You won’t even listen to the contents of the deal?”

“I’ll let you live, and you’ll fulfill my wish. Isn’t that a fair exchange?”

“Or does Miss Shen think her life isn’t worth much?” Su Xiqiao’s words were unpleasant, and even her tone and expression carried a hint of provocation.

Almost the very first second Shen Banyan heard those words, she warned herself not to fall into the other woman’s trap.

Yet when she opened her mouth, what she said was completely different from all the mental preparation she had done.

“What do you want?”

Perhaps her rational judgment had been affected by the pheromones. Shen Banyan decided to blame her loss of control on her heat.

“There are many things I want, but they aren’t excessive. For example, right now, I need you to accompany me to see Bo Yi’an.”

“If no one acts as my protector, I can’t escape her control, and I can’t escape the plot either.”

“Shen Banyan, I need you.”

It was clearly a sentence showing weakness, yet Su Xiqiao said it as if it were perfectly natural, as if this was how things should be.

Shen Banyan fell silent for a moment.

She did want to live.

But she did not want to agree to Su Xiqiao, yet had no reason to refuse her either.

“Fine.”

Then Shen Banyan’s gaze moved to the clothes on Su Xiqiao’s body.

Her suit jacket.

She did not think her suit jacket could be worn directly outside as a dress.

Su Xiqiao understood Shen Banyan’s unspoken hesitation, and the corner of her lips curved up in a small, pleased arc.

“We leave now.”

Su Xiqiao clearly had no intention of changing clothes.

Shen Banyan furrowed her brows and parted her lips slightly, but after seeing the marks on Su Xiqiao’s body, she looked away.

With the evidence of the crime right in front of her, the culprit was always guilty.

“Shen Banyan, I know what you’re afraid of.”

Su Xiqiao walked up to Shen Banyan and used her pale, soft hands to straighten Shen Banyan’s collar.

In those simple two seconds, Shen Banyan could not endure the feeling of Su Xiqiao’s faint touch against her.

That itch was more than she could bear.

The five senses of human beings were sight, touch, smell, hearing, and taste.

Only after meeting Su Xiqiao did Shen Banyan learn that the sense of touch could torment a person like this.

As if, in the first half of her life, she had never truly possessed the ability to feel touch at all.

Su Xiqiao sensed Shen Banyan’s resistance. She moved her hand away, a smile appearing on her face.

“During the term of our agreement, we will rely on each other and search for a chance to survive.”

“But all of this is built on one premise.”

“Between us, no matter what happens, there can be no love.”

“The moment there is, the agreement becomes void. You and I will both fail to survive. I’ll use my life to play this round with you and see whether we can change our predetermined ending. How does that sound?”

Wicked.

There was wickedness in Su Xiqiao’s smile.

She was like some demonic enchantress from a television drama, acting freely and carelessly, easily staking her own life on such an agreement.

She should refuse.

Put another way, Shen Banyan could not find a reason to agree.

“Fine.”

The words she spoke betrayed Shen Banyan’s heart.

Sometimes, she herself could not understand what she was saying.

“It’s too late today. It isn’t suitable. Besides, I also need to replenish some inhibitors.”

Only after saying this did Shen Banyan find a good enough excuse for herself.

Yes.

It was too late today. She could not let Su Xiqiao go out with her dressed in nothing but her clothes.

It was an issue of time, of place, of every physical factor involved…

The only thing it was not was that her heart had been thrown into chaos.

Su Xiqiao blinked. She could sense that as long as she stayed by Shen Banyan’s side, the force restraining her to remain by the female lead’s side weakened by a great deal.

She did intend to cooperate with Shen Banyan, but she had no intention of telling Shen Banyan her weakness.

“Rest well. I’ll go sleep downstairs.”

Shen Banyan suppressed her thoughts, which had scattered so far they were almost impossible to gather back. The room she had booked was a presidential suite divided into two floors.

Su Xiqiao was upstairs, so she could sleep in the study downstairs.

Even if there were empty rooms on the second floor, Shen Banyan would not choose the second floor.

Just as Shen Banyan lifted her foot and was about to leave the room, Su Xiqiao sensed that nauseating emotion rising for no reason again.

As long as Shen Banyan left this room, her mind would once again be forcibly filled by some unfamiliar power with the idea that she ought to fall in love with Bo Yi’an.

Disgusting!

Sickening!

“Why do you need something like inhibitors?”

Shen Banyan felt that even her hearing had gone wrong. She actually faintly heard that Su Xiqiao seemed a little angry.

The next second, Su Xiqiao’s actions told Shen Banyan that she had not sensed wrong.

Su Xiqiao pulled the woman who had her back to her back around to face her.

“Isn’t the best, most suitable inhibitor for you in this world standing right here?”

“Shen Banyan, what’s between us now isn’t because of pheromones.”

“It’s because I want you.”

The moment Su Xiqiao’s final word fell, she reached out, yanked Shen Banyan’s tie down, and kissed her fiercely.

A fierce kiss, just like Su Xiqiao’s current mood.

As expected, she hated everything that restrained her. In this world, if anyone dared to bind her, she would smash their knees to pieces!

A kiss carrying anger burned away the last of Shen Banyan’s reason.

[World Consciousness 001, shut down all of your authority.]

[Otherwise, there will be no possibility of cooperation between us after this.]

Shen Banyan gave up.

She felt that the two words “gentleman” were still far too distant from a worldly person like her.